I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

Winning the league is obviously something you dream of as a kid.

I'd like to see myself as captain, but it's a long-term goal.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

The FA Cup is a great competition and one we want to win.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

My understanding of the game has improved. The technical side has improved. All round I have improved in leaps and bounds at United. I learn something every day in training here and I am just loving it.

Zlatan has been fantastic. He's one of the best characters I've played with.

I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

It's always nice to play in the position you feel most comfortable in.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

I've said all along from day one centre-back is the position I feel most comfortable in but if I'm asked to play right-back or midfield I'll go and do a job there.

I love playing football so I want to play as many as I can.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

It was brilliant when I heard of United's interest, an incredible feeling.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

I don't think any training session can get you ready for a game in the Premier League, never mind playing against Liverpool.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.

It is nice to be playing and involved.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

I would never have dreamed of being able to lift the Premier League trophy.

Own goals happen to the best of players.

I want to stop goals going in the net.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

Having more money allows you to play in a certain way, but that's the beauty of the Premier League - there are so many different styles.

People have different opinions. They are entitled to that and as professionals we get on with it and forget about it and concentrate on what we do on the pitch.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.